Influenced by Sprint 🖼 #124

I’ve just come back from a 2-day workshop with one of our Etch partners in Cornwall. It wasn’t a Design Sprint, but it was heavily influenced by the methodology.

We did the Ask The Experts, Long Term Goal and Map exercises on the first day. We then broke and I worked up a prototype. The following day, we wrote user stories, critiqued the design and I made live changes.

The benefit is of course, collaboration. Can you imagine how many calls and meetings we would’ve had instead! At the end of two days, we’ve got a design that we can test with users and we could decide to develop.

Suffice to say, any work that I do outside of a Design Sprint is heavily influenced by the Design Sprint. I’m very happy with that.

Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, authors of the New York Times bestseller Sprint are back with another book to help you make the most of your time. I’ve already interviewed Jake for the podcast, and really trying to get hold of John!

Robert Skrobe, Owner of Dallas Design Sprints LLC contributes a lot to the Facebook Groups and Slack group. Instead of commenting, here he doesn’t hold back! His prediction: “I think there’s going to be a huge correction in the market this time next year for UX. ”

When having the right UX tools is the crucial difference between having a collaborative, seamless, and highly effective design workflow and one that’s slow and unproductive, it’s important to stay up to date with the latest tools and technologies.

David Hieatt, Co-founder of Hiut Denim Co and The Do Lectures shares his fundamentals for a team. “Our energy is best spent on going forward and not second-guessing each other or avoiding what needs to be said.”